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Quiz

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Where was her first teaching job?
a) London
b) Poland
c) Japan How old were her students?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5 What did the students do at the start of the lesson?
a) Laugh
b) Cry
c) Sleep How did she try to finish the lesson?
a) Story
b) Song
c) Game Does she like teaching children now?
a) No
b) Yes
c) Not sure

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OK, Charlotte. You've been a teacher for quite awhileYeah, I started about three years ago, and my first job was in
Jessif, in the east of Poland.
I was promised that I wasn't going to have to teach any beginners, or
any little children
because it was my first job, and I was promptly given the beginner infants.
My first day of teaching I was given a book which said, 'Ah! Go into the
classroom and say
"Hello" to the children, and they'll all say, "Hello" back to you and
wave'. I walked
into a class of five four-year olds, followed by all their mothers, and
grandmothers, and
I said, "Hello" and they all burst into tears. I spent half the lesson
trying to get them
to say,"Hello" to each other and stop them from crying while all the grandmothers
stood
around and stared at me. I finally finished off my singing the, whatever,
Happy Princess Song,
all on my own, with crying infants to accompany me. It was one of the
worst days of my life.
I could identify with all the children though, cause I wanted to sit on
the floor and cry with
them by the end of it. I think that that was when I realized that teaching
kids was never
going to be my vocation. I had some other classes as well but quit soon
after that and moved
onto adults who cry slightly less. Um, yeah, that was my first teaching
experience.
Not the best.